Sexual Violence
Sexual violence is defined as a sexual act committed against someone without that
person’s freely given consent. Consent is defined as voluntary, positive agreement
between the participants to engage in specific sexual activity. A person who is asleep
or mentally or physically incapacitated, either through the effect of drugs or alcohol
or for any other reason, is not capable of giving valid consent.
*Retrieved from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Northwestern's Women's Center
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Interpersonal Violence
Interpersonal violence is the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened
or actual, against another person or against a group or community that results in
or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment,
or deprivation.
*Retrieved from the Retrieved from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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- http://www.thehotline.org/
- https://www.bandbacktogether.com/master-resource-links-2/abuse-resources/domestic-abuse-resources/
- https://www.helpguide.org/articles/abuse/domestic-violence-and-abuse.htm#understanding
- http://www.loveisrespect.org/
Emotional/Verbal Abuse
Emotional abuse includes non-physical behaviors such as threats, insults, constant monitoring or “checking in,” excessive texting, humiliation, intimidation, isolation or stalking.
There are many behaviors that qualify as emotional or verbal abuse:
- Calling you names and putting you down
- Yelling and screaming at you
- Intentionally embarrassing you in public
- Preventing you from seeing or talking with friends and family
- Telling you what to do and wear
- Using online communities or cell phones to control, intimidate or humiliate you
- Blaming your actions for their abusive or unhealthy behavior
- Stalking you
- Threatening to commit suicide to keep you from breaking up with them
- Threatening to harm you, your pet or people you care about
- Making you feel guilty or immature when you don’t consent to sexual activity
- Threatening to expose your secrets such as your sexual orientation or immigration status
- Starting rumors about you
- Threatening to have your children taken away
*Retrieved from LoveisRespect.org
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Stalking
Stalking is a pattern of repeated and unwanted attention, harassment, contact, or any other course of conduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to feel fear
- Non-consensual communication, such as repeated phone calls, emails, text messages, and unwanted gifts.
- Repeated physical or visual closeness, like waiting for an someone to arrive at certain locations, following someone, or watching someone from a distance.
- Making threats against someone, or that person's family or friends.
- Any other behavior used to contact, harass, track, or threaten someone.
Stalking through the use of technology.
- Using someone’s computer and/or spyware to track their computer activity.
- Posting threatening or personal information about someone on public internet forums.
- Persistently sending unwanted communication through the internet, such as spamming someone’s email inbox or social media platform.
- Video-voyeurism, or installing video cameras that give the stalker access someone’s personal life.
- Using GPS or other software tracking systems to monitor someone without their knowledge or consent.
*Retrieved from RAINN.org
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- http://www.victimsofcrime.org/our-programs/stalking-resource-center
- http://stalkingawarenessmonth.org/
- https://rainn.org/get-information/types-of-sexual-assault/stalking
Bullying
Bully is when a person is exposed, repeatedly and over time, to negative actions on the part of one or more other persons, and he or she has difficulty defending himself or herself.
This definition includes three important components
- Bullying is aggressive behavior that involves unwanted, negative actions
- Bullying involves a pattern of behavior repeated over time
- Bullying involves an imbalance of power or strength
Types of bullying:
- Verbal bullying including derogatory comments and bad names
- Bullying through social exclusion or isolation
- Physical bullying such as hitting, kicking, shoving, and spitting
- Bullying through lies and false rumors
- Having money or other things taken or damaged by students who bully
- Being threatened or being forced to do things by students who bully
- Racial bullying
- Sexual bullying
- Cyberbullying (via cell phone or Internet)
*Retrieved from Violence Prevention Works
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Hazing
Michigan Tech defines hazing as any action taken or situation created intentionally,
knowingly, and/or recklessly to produce mental or physical discomfort, embarrassment,
harassment, ridicule, or possibly cause mental or physical harm or injury, regardless
of the harmed party’s willingness to participate.
*Retrieved from Michigan Tech Student Conduct Code
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School Shooting
A school shooting is a form of mass shooting involving a gun attack on an educational institution, such as a school or university. The U.S. Secret Service defines them as shootings where schools are "deliberately selected as the location for the attack."
*Retrieved from Wikipedia